drumfire
gunfire so heavy and continuous as to sound like the beating of drums.
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How to use drumfire in a sentence
With thunderous drumfire from its exhausts, the cutter jerked forward so rapidly that it almost threw them from their feet again.
The Door into Infinity | Edmond HamiltonSo Billy sighed in the darkness and sat easily on drumfire, his slim left hand fidgeting with the swinging rein.
Tharon of Lost Valley | Vingie E. RoeNot far from us was going on a drumfire which at times reached an unprecedented intensity.
The Iron Ration | George Abel SchreinerThat night even the German guns stopped their drumfire, as though Sixt von Arnim's army was in mourning for its dead.
I remember the noise of our guns as all our batteries took their parts in a vast orchestra of drumfire.
Now It Can Be Told | Philip Gibbs
British Dictionary definitions for drumfire
/ (ˈdrʌmˌfaɪə) /
heavy, rapid, and continuous gunfire, the sound of which resembles rapid drumbeats
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